Chapter 9: The Olympian Court Receives Miss Calloway Poorly

The summons from Triton, Nereid and Associates specified a Thursday.

It further specified half past ten in the morning, formal morning dress, and the presentation of the enclosed authenticating token upon arrival—a small disc of pressed sea-glass, smooth and cold as a held breath, which Petra had examined with the expression of someone cataloguing evidence at a trial in which she was, against her better judgment, both witness and defendant.

Thursday arrived, as Thursdays do, with complete indifference to whether one was prepared for it.